Owls, Robots, and Carrots... Oh My!

TODAY IS BABY DAY!!! I GET TO FIND OUT THE SEX AND SEE MY BABY!!! HEAR MY BABY'S HEART BEAT ALL FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!

Some New things I found around this awesome site of Instructables!!! I might try them when I move into my house this summer. Definitely good garden decor!

Homemade Solar Jars!!!

Firefly Sim Jar!!!

I have been working on remembering how to sew well. I stayed up real late doing that. I made two owl dolls that I mocked up after a design I liked. The original is much better check her out! If had the money I'd buy her stuff Pretty Little Things . Mine are a little less cute because of shoddy work and my warped changes which will make them darker. I also practiced making a giraffe/kangaroo. But it looks like a version of my dog! LOL.

I am gonna finish up my quilt and then move on from there. Get the veggie set down. I have to redo all the other ones. Which is fine I need to change a couple things and make them uber baby proof. I think I will start with the carrots. One realistic carrot and a carrot for the mobile (artsy).

1. Quilt
2. Veggie set revamped
3. Mobile (a while it happens in the veggie set)
4. More owls (I know I can get these right)
5. Boppies ( I have had the designs forever now and I need to do it before I lose my fabric for it)
6. Robot Dolls (I have the concept designs for the robots, need to get my sewing skills and
drawing on the same level)

7. Pirate Dolls
8. Alien Dolls

Flickr and Sewing Machines

No new projects completed today. I added photos to my new flickr account!!!

Danelioninarow's Flickr !!!

I got my sewing machine about 9:00 o'clock and after Lost I have been sewing like a mad woman. I am remembering very quickly about the do's and do not's . I am starting to think some felt would make for some nice dolls. Less fraying and I need different colored thread beside green and black though I have come up with some pretty good owls. (Owls are my fall back subject. If I can't think of what to draw or something art related I do an owl)... They are so pretty and there's tons of thins to do with them. I definitely need practice on the sewing machine. :-) But I am ripping through my crafts list of to dos. I am gonna go
to bed now but I thought I'd post another link for Easter. I can't wait to do this!!! It is so easy and it looks as real as I would think. They also have a tutorial of the stand.

How to make a Dragon's Egg

My first Shadow Box

This is my very first shadow box. It for my baby's nursery. I love the way carrots look. I cannot take credit for the artwork. This is decoupage. The artist (I love his work) is Nathan Jurevicius.
If by the off chance you reading this are indeed him and would like me to remove this O will do so at your request. I had a lot of fun with doing this. Got a hot glue gun (1.97 at walmart) and a couple burns on my fingers... especially my thumb. Ouch! I have an obsession with carrots right now. I love using them in art. I think I'll do some sketches of them. WOOT!!!

I would like to make another two like this to hang in the nursery. I just need to tie a ribbon to hang it with.

Having a glue gun opens so many crafting doors to gluing cloth and such. I just wish that I had more supplies. I have plenty of other projects to do but I am still waiting for a sewing machine. I traded it for one of those 3-d ultrasounds on Saturday!!! I am gonna print out lil baby pictures and send them out to my husband's family and my friend's. I am so excited. I get to find out the sex too. I didn't really trade the sewing machine, my husband will buy it for me any way. He really wants me to start sewing. I have a bunch of projects ready to go: cut and pinned together.
I have so many other projects from all the blogs I read and see.

Saturday feels like it will never come.

Promised Pics. Gardening, and Ca-Ching!

So here's the recent watermelon and tomato. I didn't do the corn it felt too complicated right now.



This is were my herbal and veggie garden will go at my soon to be new house in may!
It needs alot of TLC as you can see but I did a little work today. Baby steps. eh?




Here's the rest of the back yard. Need to put in a new fence and a retainer wall below the fence for a nice bed of flowers and bushes or something (rip out that wild ground cover). Gonna take that tree out and put in either the avocado tree or lemon tree. Make that sandy path into a cobblestone path and I want more lush grass because on the far left is where I am putting in the croquet course. On the far left is were the veggie garden will be. LOTs of changes there. get rid of sand and bring in soil. Build a cute white picket fence around it. Maybe put in a covered sand box. and turn he concrete area into a hop scotch area. Lots and lots of work.




Behold!!! All the change I have saved!!! It adds up to just enough to buy that sewing machine Yippee!!!
Soon I will be sewing with the homies. My husband has already setup a space for me and my machine.

Next post, I promise... will be the recipe to the cold curing spicy veggie packed soup!!!
Aztec Stone Soup!!!

Tomato... Tomoto...

I finished the tomato. I am really disappointed with how all these are turning out. I really need to get a sewing machine. The whole idea and concept is there but the quality of work is not. I am just not very good at hand stitching anything at all. Still don't have my camera... :-(. So no pictures.

I am gonna switch gears for a while and work on a book about the different types of religions. Since I am choosing to not raise my child in any particular religion but definitely spiritual and tolerant of everyone else's beliefs I am gonna make a book about Christianity, Mormonism, Catholicism, Islam, Jehovah's Witness-ism, Wiccan, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I have some beautiful illustrations in my head for them. Words and info are very sketchy right now. I want my child to be able to choose their own religion. I don't want my child feeling guilty for every little thing like I did when I was brain washed with the scare tactics of an organized religion at such a young age. When my child is 18 he can pick a religion and practice one. But not until then. I don't want any organized religion influencing my child at all.

I need to get film too. Its been a long time since I could go take pictures and I really want to. I need some color film and my grandpas camera to meet today. But I don't think that will happen. I would also like to go over to my soon to be home and get the gardening project underway. Very exciting. Its such a beautiful day. I want to go outside and enjoy nature. But there are no nature to enjoy unless I go to the state park... which is only a few minutes away. But nearly impossible for me to get my hubby to stop being so cheap. :-(.

A last note. I made the fantastic Aztec Stone Soup again. Its a recipe for soup my husband and I made up. I love it on cold rainy days, which yesterday was, not today. It delicious! Kinda spicy in the back of your throat and chalk full of veggies! I'll post my watermelon, tomato, and soup with recipe tomorrow!!! I promise!!!

Watermelon Smirks

Watermelon... This one is my favorite the slanted grin... the starry eyes... I think I am in love. But i could see how I would change it. Make to conjoining sides of red and light green and a dark green wedge connecting them. I tried that but because of my brain being eaten by my baby... and ne seam rippers I messed up the same way twice and scrapped it to this... I really love my watermelon. I wish I could do more. I am just so tired though. All the time. Where's that 2nd trimester baby energy that the books say I am suppose to get?

I left my camera over at my mother's house so I don't have any pictures to show you of this watermelon at this time. But it will be coming.

I have started to work on the corn and well, its turning out to be tricky. The leaves are perplexing me. There a just so many options with them.

I have been wanting to explore new ways of eating veggies. Lately, most food has seemed really bland and boring. I saw this stuffed yellow tomato and it has inspired me to go forth and get awesome veggie recipes!!!

OKay... not great but ok.

I haven't sewn in a long, long time. And certainly not very good when it comes to hand stitching I need a sewing machine asap. I am looking at one from wal-mart for 56 dollars. If I could get that monies my projects would go fast, nicer, and less pain of stabbing my fingering with the needle would occur.

The first one I did was the carrot... he's my favorite really but not in real life... not a big fan of the orange sticks but then broccoli, eggplant, and green bean (which is my second fav and looks like a pea pod too). Real simple design. If I get a sewing machine I am gonna remake them for sure.

Next doll will be the watermelon. I think I will really enjoy making that one. But I am also working on another project which is a quilt for my baby. Its a raven themed quilt. We started making this when we were gonna name our baby atticus. Turned out after a while of thinking about it, I wasn't as wild about atticus as I thought. But I still wanna make the quilt.

Here's the two patches its made from so far out of 16 squares one has the raven sewn on. LOL.

Okay, almost done... I have to make my short to do list:
1. Veggie dolls
2. Raven quilt
3. Eleven booties
4. Burp Rags
5. Boppy
6. "Scary" Dolls
7. Art for the nusery

That should get me through the week and further, if I don't get a sewing machine I am 30 dollars away now. Wish me luck (also my pictures and dolls and such will be improving I promise!!!)